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Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes’ comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism run riot as the tragic dramatist Euripides is made to take part in a hilarious spoof on some of his own favourite plot lines. This edition, updated in 2013, presents the Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.

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‘For an overall series of the entire corpus, including critical text, commentary, translation, and full introduction, all subsumed to one man’s intelligent analysis and wide-ranging scholarship, Sommerstein stands triumphantly alone. […] Aristophanes is lucky to have so devoted, erudite, and witty a modern celebrant.’
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Table of Contents
PREFACE
References and Abbreviations
a. Collections of Fragments
b. Abbreviations: Ancient Authors and Works
c. Abbreviations: Modern Authors and Publications
d. Metrical Symbols
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
Select Bibliography
Note on the Text
Sigla
Dramatis Personae
THESMOPHORIAZUSAE
Text and Translation
CRITICAL APPARATUS
COMMENTARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ADDENDA

Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae

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      Publisher Aris & Phillips Ltd
      Published 4 January 1994
      ISBN-13 9780856685590
      978-0856685590
      ISBN-10 0856685593

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes’ comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism run riot as the tragic dramatist Euripides is made to take part in a hilarious spoof on some of his own favourite plot lines. This edition, updated in 2013, presents the Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.

      Trade Review
      ‘For an overall series of the entire corpus, including critical text, commentary, translation, and full introduction, all subsumed to one man’s intelligent analysis and wide-ranging scholarship, Sommerstein stands triumphantly alone. […] Aristophanes is lucky to have so devoted, erudite, and witty a modern celebrant.’
      Scholia

      Table of Contents
      PREFACE
      References and Abbreviations
      a. Collections of Fragments
      b. Abbreviations: Ancient Authors and Works
      c. Abbreviations: Modern Authors and Publications
      d. Metrical Symbols
      INTRODUCTORY NOTE
      Select Bibliography
      Note on the Text
      Sigla
      Dramatis Personae
      THESMOPHORIAZUSAE
      Text and Translation
      CRITICAL APPARATUS
      COMMENTARY
      BIBLIOGRAPHY
      ADDENDA

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